THE Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXIV, No. 13-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, May 24, 1974 Ten Cents Twelve Pages House counsel calls transcriptsinadequate Questions accuracy, completeness Tangled tale Hijacker David Kamaiko is held by New York police after he took over a helicopter at gun point and demanded $2 million in cash ransom, to be delivered by a woman in a bikini. Kamaiko, 21, claimed to be a member of the Jewish Defense League and said he seized the helicopter "to protest the masquerade that is going on" in the Middle East. After he allowed the aircraft to land on top of New York's Pan American building, the hijacker was jumped and dis- armed by one of his two hostages. WASHINGTON (A.-- The chief counsel of the House impeachment p a n e 1 declared yesterday the White House Watergate transcripts are "inadequate and unsatisfac- tory." John Doar said he told the Ju- diciary Committee he is concerned both about the accuracy of the documents "and the judgments of the President and his counsel in deleting material on the grounds of revelance." PRESIDENT NIXON'S chief Water- gate lawyer, James St. Clair, took af- front at Doar's remarks and wrote Chairman Peter Rodino (D-N.J.), that they were "gratuitous in the extreme." A comparison of the transcripts with tapes already in the committee's pos- session show that the panel "should not rely on those transcripts," said Doar. St. Clair acknowledged in his letter of complaint that "the committee's own experience in listening to tapes discloses the variety of meanings, degree of in- audibility and alike that can exist," but he said that "despite such verbal differ- ences of opinion as to what is said." DESPITE DOAR'S assessment, neither he nor Rodino would immediately sup- port proposals aimed at pressuring Nix- on further to turn over remaining tapes of the conversations. In the face of a second presidential re- buke yesterday of committee subpoenas demanding those tapes and other data, Rodino said the panel should continue to subpoena evidence it deems necessary- and consider any rejections as possi- bly impeachable offenses in themselves. The committee met in a closed, ab- breviated session during which it heard evidence focusing on the first half 464 April 1973, when the Watergate cover-up began to unravel. THlE PANEL has the edited White House transcripts ofspresidential conver- sations during thnt period, but no tapes. The next committee session is sched- tiled for Wednesday when Rodino said he hopes to complete hearing evidence about the Watergate cover-up. In related developments: * The Senate Watergate committee lost its 10-month fight for five White House tapes when the U. S. Court of Appeals ruled the committee had not shown sufficient need for the tapes to fulfill its function of determining whe- ther new election laws are necessary. The five tapes have already been given to the specialsprosecutorand the House impeachment inquiry, and their edited transcripts have been made public. * Attorneys for former presidential aides accused in the break-in at the of- fice of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist asked a federal judge to transfer the trial out of Washington on grounds that See TRANSCRIPTS, Page 10 Israel, Syria appr accord on Golan JERUSALEM UP - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has moved Israel and Syria "considerably closer" to agree- ment on thinning out their forces on the Golan Heights, a senior U. S. official said last night. He said the breakthrough resulted from Kissinger's introduction of undis- closed American ideas, first in a meet- ing with Premier Golda Meir and Is- raeli negotiators and later in a four and a half hour talk with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus. IN A LONG day of shuttle diplomacy, the official said, Kissinger also made progress on determining the size of the United Nations force that will patrol the thinned - out regions as well as the de- militarized buffer zone between the Is- raeli and Syrian armies. Kissinger will report to Israeli leaders this morning and return to Damascus later in the day or early tomorrow, hop- ing to wrap up the over-all disengage- ment settlement. In any event, the official said, Kissin- ger will head back to Washington by Sun- day. THE ISRAELI military command said while Kissinger was in Damascus that its troops shot and killed six heavily armed Arabs who infiltrated from Syria intending to stage another raid like the Maalot massacre that delayed Kissing- er's peacemaking efforts last week. Israel said the guerrillas trained in Syria and were members of the same guerrilla group that carried out the Maalot raid. Kissinger said earlier yesterday there had been "great progress" toward a Go- Ian Heights disengagement accord, but added that he might not be able to com- plete it during his current Mideast mis- sion.; "But we will continue to persevere in oach Heights the next few days," Kissinger added in a luncheon toast before resuming criti- cal negotiations with President Hafez Assad. KISSINGER gave the luncheon for For- eign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam and other Syrian officials. In the toast, Kissinger described a separation of Israeli and Syrian forces as "a first step" for a "just and perma- nent peace" in the Middle East. "It is time that the peoples of the Middle East begin to devote their talents to peaceful pursuits," he said. Then, referring to his current disen- gagement effort, Kissinger said: "It is my judgment that we have made great progress in the negotiations. Even if we should for some reason not complete it in this session we will surely bring it to a successful conclusion in the near fu- ture."